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Am I the only person who has seen this? I can't be the only person who thinks this is pretty crazy... Check out this auction on eBay for an ACTUAL BIOENTERICS LAP BAND! Holy cow...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7578343073

If you read the description, they supposidly have to list it as "used" which is even more weird in my opinion... I didn't think you could sell this kind of stuff on eBay, but I guess now if I ever decide to "lose" my band, I can get some money back?! Whoa!

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How the heck did you find that on Ebay? I just checked it out..too funny...whoever wins it, I hope they have a good qualified surgeon to put it in ;)

Very interesting!

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A band friend lead me to it... I think it's crazy, personally. I remember a while back someone on here said that if they got desperate, they'd be breaking out a butcher knife and putting a twist-tie around their stomache themselves...well, here's your chance! Yikes!

On another note, what qualified surgeon would feel comfortable putting in a supposidly "new" but technically opened/used band? Yikes, again! ;)

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OMG! SHut up! I can't believe someone is selling that! I wonder where they got it. Doesn't the band it's self cost like $3000? thats crazy!!

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Surely the people bidding on this are going to use it for teaching purposes?! I hope!! Just goes to show you, you can buy or sale anything on Ebay!

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ok, so i do think this is funny, but, does anyone else think this is wrong? or better yet, scary? i'm a little worried about the bidder and their intentions. it occured to me that perhaps this bidder (or the people buying things like this) might be buying them FOR a doctor to place, not just as a patient... what made me think this you might ask? well, when I was snooping around and seeing what else these bidders have/are bidding on, they bought other medical products as well, like an endoscopy machine, etc. this thought is truly scary to me... anyone else?

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HOw CRAZZYYYYY? %$#@#$%% I certainly hope that a certified Doctor would never put it in. But than again- what if it is perfectly OK??? What if this person gets it for min. & saves virtually $3000.00? HMMMM - I don't know? What I do know is it wouldn't be me> LOL LOL LOL

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Now the SCARY thought is.. as money hungry as American Doctors have become, one could buy it for $65 and charge the insurance co... oh let me see... $50,000!

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Next thing you know, we'll have a band hacker, sitting up shop in his garage, LOL. OMG, that's scary!

This is exactly what entered my mind. Some crazy nut job calling himself a Doctor & preying on a despert overweight person & leading them around the back of the house!!! OMG!

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